Algorithms Contracts in the North West

Algorithms
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 141 173
Rank change year-on-year +15 +32 -37
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 15 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 1.46% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 6
10th Percentile £463 £453 £516
25th Percentile £480 £498 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% -1.47% -4.26%
75th Percentile £609 £571 £622
90th Percentile £656 £589 £645
England median daily rate £575 £600 £690
% change year-on-year -4.17% -13.04% +20.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £66.69 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +109.52% -41.67% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
North West

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 751 1,093 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.03% 33.86% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 737 1,056
10th Percentile £297 £295 £213
25th Percentile £419 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year - +7.24% +20.87%
75th Percentile £582 £626 £586
90th Percentile £672 £680 £671
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 49 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.68 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.22 £12.39
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +49.23% +4.75%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £38.59
90th Percentile £46.18 £70.00 £48.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +1.92%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +23 12 £550 +2.85% 17
Cumbria - 2 £520 -
Cheshire -1 1 - - 3
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Simulink
1 4 (26.67%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) npm
1 4 (26.67%) Yarn
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Redis
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jasmine
1 4 (26.67%) Karma Test Runner
1 4 (26.67%) Mocha
1 4 (26.67%) webpack
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Automotive
1 4 (26.67%) Legal
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
1 4 (26.67%) React
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Swagger
3 2 (13.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (13.33%) Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (40.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (40.00%) OO
1 6 (40.00%) OOP
2 5 (33.33%) Scrum
2 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Asynchronous Programming
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 4 (26.67%) Memory Management
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) SOLID
3 4 (26.67%) Validation
3 4 (26.67%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (13.33%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) MATLAB
4 3 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) C
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google